Funeral Songs

Songs for Funerals

The songs for funerals are set out in categories to help you find the kind of funeral songs you’re looking for.

See the following categories below: Popular funeral songs, young death, still birth, death of a spouse, religious, alternative, rock, death of a parent, golden oldies, sentimental songs for funerals, love songs and Afrikaans funeral songs.

"If I could reach up and hold a star for every time you've made me smile, the entire evening sky would be in the palm of my hand"

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“What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.”

Richard Bach, (Illusions)

"Perhaps they are not stars, but rather openings in heaven where the love of our lost ones pours through and shines down upon us to let us know they are happy."

eskimo proverb

Death plucks my ear and says, “live – I’m coming.”

Virgil, 70-19BCE

"When we are forgotten, we cease to exist."

Lady of the lake, from the movie 'Merlin'

"Tears are the words the heart can't express"

Author unknown

"There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are messengers of overwhelming grief...and unspeakable love."

Washington Irving

I never held her, or heard her cry, and I wasn't ready to say goodbye.